The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-03-02
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NEW YoRK, March 1.-The Common.
wealth Club, including it's guests, 200
strong, dined at the Metropolitan Hotel.
City Chamberlain William NJ. Evans read
papsr on the usa OF money ID clections,
in vhich he presented some queer state.
Faents These were some Of them:
"Tbe lsssl machinery OF elections in
thin city involves total expenditure OF
s29l 900 in an average year, md at leeas
100000 IL added 10 ,hia in Presidential
yesra. 'Tais fund OF S20l,O00 is practi-
c4i'y reed, il not to purchase, at least
to a:surn and guarantee tho yots
o' 81 least tn ptra6rs tGr ecch election
9iit7!ct. III" election d:s!ricIa will aver
sEG aSGrt 500 co.sre, 80 that three per
cant Of the votes, I'd a minimum, are en-
.ployed "a n- Gtnu! the elsctiona, in &C.
eosda1cs With the provisions OF law, as
Iilicers of the law; and the election dis.
t::ct leaae:s 800 tha. they are the first
i1eI to vote, md 10 voto right. The dis
;r:c. leaderE, ct the rate OF four 70. each
election diatrict, are among the ,749 Of
!iceho!ders whose names are on ths pay
rolls of tho city. t 9 -.
}"Iho different nachines, for tho pur.
pose OF secufing their Esryiccs In perpot.
uity, get the city to pay them as city am-
p.oyes. New York Git; paid. its Assem-
lily district leaders lezt year S330,OOO, or
sn hve!sge Of $3.50 Tor each of the
.evonty-!wo lesdes1. The estinates III.
eiudos the est:matsd iacone of the Eegis-
tss's oilics st 800. 900 Il is now. however,
Il foe ollics, yielding cnly $4,000 q
year TO its chief. Tho amount which is
Iow beiu. actually received by these
Leaders from tho public treasury.is S24o. :
900. OF this Tanrlany Hall geta Sl19, 900,
the County Democracy $4,000 and the
Republicans the rest. In each case the
amount received is divided among dis.
t'ict leaders, and $4,000 more goes to
captsina, heelerc, followers aud hangera.
on. Il1H. " (,
ITO meet theao latter expenees, the
County Clerk, Register, and other candid.
steu ior office, have to pay large ssaess-
iuents to tlisir party constituencies. The
County Clerk and Register have got Of,
cheap when they paid from $4,000 to
SEQ, 900, snd besides gave Office to certain
rstliners. In addition, Mr.. John Kelly,
I'm told, used to make each Of those off.
GERS pay him $4,000 year for State
politics. In good years, such. as that
alter tho sale by the Board of Aldermen
CT the Broadway franchise, the Alder
manic oilice wR8 much sought sfter. Al
dermanic candidates were assessed from
SIS to S25 for each election district. Cam
didates for Congress pay from S25 to $50
for each election district. Candidates for
judicial offices hsve paid as high as $2O,-
700. The assessment paid by tho Comp
troller in the last election WAS $4,000.
"Mayor Hewitt paid $4,000 apiece to
the County Democracy and TO Tammany
Hall, or $24 600. Mayor Edison, paid, OF
there was paid on his account, $4,000 each
to the County Democracy and Iainmany
Hall, and 5000 to Irving Hall. Mayor
Graca paid $4,000 to tho County Demo.
cracy whom he last ran, and in 1880 he
paid sl2.5O0 to, Irving Hall and $500
10 Tammany Hall. An average
year eees total Of $2ll,20O paid In
assessments. This, with the money dis,
tributed by law, results in fiity.six voters
in each election district being under pap,
or 45, ,475 in all. Thus at the last election,
when 2l0,o92 votes were polled, over
twenty per cent OF all the voters received
money in one form or another for their
election.day services. This total does moi
include the printing, or the expenses oil
Gubsrnational or Presidential years, when
all thsse figures are largely increased"